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| 3d74fb3 | During the early Islamic period between the 7th and 11th centuries, Bethlehem came under the dominion of the Muslim caliphates, and in 634, Modestus, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, failed to celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem for the first time in three centuries.[69] During this time, parts of the southern transept of Justinian's church were converted to be used as prayer areas for Muslims.[70] Bethlehem was an important site for Muslims, who c.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| bcdf999 | Bethlehem was occupied by the Crusaders between 1099 and 1187, and a hospital and a hospice for pilgrims were constructed in the town during this time. | Charles River Editors | ||
| e650e87 | Throughout his work, Guderian showed an aptitude for military theory, and in 1937, he put some of it into print in a book named Achtung! Panzer! In Achtung! Panzer!, Guderian assessed the state of armored warfare among the nations of Europe and the Soviet Union, based on his extensive studies. He argued that the era of cavalry was over due to the impact of machine-guns, and that mechanized infantry could be used to fill their role. He also .. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 13ace35 | The 4th century church was later replaced by the building that exists in present-day Bethlehem. Between 530 and 533, Emperor Justinian I dedicated a second Church of the Nativity upon the site, and according to the Egyptian Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was destroyed and rebuilt by Justinian because the Byzantine emperor felt that the old church was too small.[43] This is the oldest Christian chu.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 142cf3e | One rather unexpected presence at the front was Adolf Hitler himself. Hitler personally crossed into Poland on September 4, 1939, with his train under the watchful eye of Rommel himself.[63] Not yet weakened by illness, drugs, and his vegetarian diet, the Fuhrer watched much of the campaign's action firsthand from an aircraft window or an open automobile, including ground combat and Stuka bombardment in his itinerary. | Charles River Editors | ||
| fdc28d0 | While some biographers claim Rommel had retrieved the goggles from an abandoned British vehicle, stating that "even a general was allowed a little booty," a 2015 Daily Mail article claims that a British POW actually gave his goggles to the general. After his capture, Major General Michael Gambier-Parry was invited to supper with Rommel, where he informed the field marshal that his hat had been stolen by a German soldier. Rommel investigat.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 7603af2 | Rachel's tomb is located a short distance north of Bethlehem, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron. It consists of a small building with a white dome erected during the Crusader period, though the original structure is obscured by modern defensive fortifications that have been erected around the site. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 7c6c7c8 | The town is described in this story as the "House of Bread" (in Arabic, the name means "House of Meat").[7] The two women arrived in time for the harvest, and Ruth started working in the barley fields surrounding Bethlehem. There she met a man named Boaz, who first helped her acquire land in the town and later had a child with her.[8] This child, Obed, was the father of Jesse, the father of David who was born in Bethlehem and who would late.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 0787ff1 | Washington remains the only President to be elected unanimously in the Electoral College. | Charles River Editors | ||
| cfab35d | Washington is the only President to be elected unanimously - not once, but twice. | Charles River Editors | ||
| c442a19 | his famous comment, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." | Charles River Editors | ||
| 10fada1 | In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death." - Samuel Adams" | Charles River Editors | ||
| 453f7d1 | Loki does not seem fazed by this cross-dressing at all, which is all the more surprising considering the reader of Norse myths is often reminded of the animosity between Loki and the god who suggested this "sacrifice of honour," Heimdall. As Hyde points out, cross-dressing and gender-changing is not a fundamental part of the "trickster" motif; it is unique to Loki and few others." -- | Charles River Editors | ||
| 9f87764 | As they moved out, one soldier recalled, "As far as could be seen, to both left and right of us, men were advancing with their rifles in the porte position, their bayonets glinting in the pale moonlight. Full moon had been days ago so it was quite dark...As we advanced, the feeling of pride and exhilaration was unmistakable. We didn't realize or think of the danger we were in; we were doing a job and the thought of being killed or wounded w.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| c7e1ab4 | The Treaty of Versailles and the agreements made by the Weimar government meant that Germany's army would be greatly reduced. Allowed to maintain an army of only 100,000, Germany would now need far fewer officers--only 4,000 would have a status in the "troop office." Rommel, without social connections or an aristocratic background, was chosen for his distinction of service, and for having earned the Pour le Merite. Still, Searle says, Ro.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| a689f2f | The Versailles Treaty (and the Weimar government's at least public adherence to it) was, to von Seeckt, an embarrassment and a hurdle to be overcome. In 1921, he created the R Sondergruppe, a secret organization within the Reichswehr whose purpose was to acquire help from the Soviet Union to evade the arms limitations of Versailles. The R-group sought modern weapons technology, including planes, tanks, and poison gas, that the army could .. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 224f2c4 | The Gestapo hanged the final group of 28 July 20th "traitors" on April 20th, 1945 as a birthday present to the Fuhrer. Many of the victims made no effort to either kill themselves or escape prior to their arrest, preferring to await the Gestapo with "dignity" and thus express their belief they were neither criminals nor traitors but brave German officers doing their duty and accepting the consequences of failure. Peter Yorck von Wartenburg .. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 9d18eb6 | On October 14, 1944, German generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel visited Rommel in his home in Herrlingen. Outside, SS troops stood by, having been instructed to kill Rommel if he attempted to escape. Rommel was told that he had been accused of associating with conspirators, and had been implicated in the July 20th assassination plot against Hitler. They gave him the choice to die by his own hand, or face a public trial. Rommel was pr.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| d1e347c | As other officers clung to the need for cavalry in the inter-war years, Guderian would remember what he had seen and argue that the machine-gun would make mounted soldiers a thing of the past. He would later say, "New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles." As a wireless communications officer, he did not see the successes an ambitious young man might have hoped for, if only because like any new system, wireless c.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 1aaaf7b | On the 28th of February 1918, Guderian began to work for the German General Staff, and while he studied to become a staff officer, British inventors were creating a machine that would transform his career. In 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, a new weapon, the armored tank, made its debut. | Charles River Editors | ||
| fad54f3 | was the British (at the instigation of Winston Churchill) who pioneered the "landship", but the French soon followed suit with their own designs. Ironically, Germany, which would subsequently become famous for panzers and blitzkrieg warfare, was late in taking up the idea." | Charles River Editors | ||
| 2386637 | Only nine weeks after Hitler brought Rommel home from North Africa, his replacement, Colonel General Juergen von Arnim, was forced to surrender to the Allies. As Rommel had predicted, Africa was, at this point, unwinnable for the Germans. Over 100,000 German soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, and Italy, now open to invasion, would fall in 1943.[118] Historian Samuel Mitcham Jr. claims that Hitler told Rommel he had made a mistake, .. | Charles River Editors | ||
| c53e59b | Instead he attended school, showing less interest in academic pursuits than in outdoor ones, and entered the army upon graduating from the realgymnasium at 19.[4] Here, Rommel would have been expected to learn Latin, as the realgymnasium followed a strict curriculum of "Bible and Church history, with the catechism of the established Church, German (rhetoric, and composition, and literature), Latin, Greek, French, history, geography, mathem.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| fc02b0f | As part of the Wurttemberg army, Rommel would have had greater exposure to Jewish soldiers, as this army followed slightly different standards of conduct, and certainly was less extreme and nationalistic than the Prussian armies of Germany's north.[12] Anti-Semitism in Germany was certainly not something that arrived with Hitler; throughout the late 19th century, writers speculated it was the Jews who were holding back German greatness, an.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 1507eef | An excellent work on the period, The Politics of Cultural Despair by Fritz Stern, gives insight into what young men in the Prussian systems were taught. Paul de Lagarde, one of Germany's most influential thinkers in this period, blamed the Jews for Germany's problems, "wrap[ping] his incredibly ferocious anti-Semitism...in a respectable cloak of nationalist idealism. With both horror and envy, he identified the Jews as a proud invincible na.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 94132aa | Hitler, at the behest of von Rundstedt to reinforce France, sent Rommel to the area to shore up German defenses. Finally, as Hitler anticipated an Allied invasion in 1944, he asked Rommel to inspect the Atlantic Wall, in what Young calls "a fake, a paper hoop for the allies to jump through."[121] No wonder Rommel was "appalled" as he moved from Denmark into France to make a report on Germany's lauded defenses. Young lists the deficiencies.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 381ff3f | In October 1938, after reading Infantry Attacks, Hitler selected Rommel to be his escort during his march into the Sudetenland. In this position, Rommel had charge of over 300 men and received a promotion to colonel after completing his service to the Fuhrer. As colonel, he would take up a new teaching position at the war school south of Vienna.[59] When he was called back to guard duty for Hitler after the full German invasion of Czechos.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 16120af | Even as the Atlantic Wall was strengthened, Operation Fortitude tricked Hitler into keeping 13 divisions in Norway rather than reinforcing the Normandy peninsula. It had also tricked German High Command into believing that 89 Allied divisions were preparing to land, with enough landing craft to bring 20 divisions ashore. In actuality, the figures were 47 and 6 respectively. Overreliance on intelligence crippled German defensive efforts in N.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 75fdc4f | Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg played the central role in Operation Valkyrie, also known as the July 20th bomb plot, the 1944 attempt on Hitler's life that (unlike most of the Army's previous efforts) nearly succeeded. The subject of numerous books and at least one high-profile popular film, Operation Valkyrie came even closer than Georg Elser's bombing attempt to killing Hitler. Since at least 1943, Stauffenberg had involved himself i.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 5da2c42 | Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide." - Erwin Rommel" | Charles River Editors | ||
| f672daa | But the murky role he played in the notorious July 20 plot on Adolf Hitler's life in 1944, the closest an assassination attempt got to killing the Nazi Fuhrer, would bring about the Desert Fox's untimely demise in October 1944, even as the Soviets and Western Allies were tightening the vise on Germany. Compelled to take cyanide by authorities, the Desert Fox insisted he was innocent until his dying day, and his popularity forced the Nazi go.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| 30633f5 | The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. | Barbara Cartland | ||
| f6ecc55 | Loving and hating were so close, two sides of a coin whose name was Need. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 1b1c4b0 | Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical. | Barbara Hepworth | ||
| c2373ce | What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise. | Barbara Jordan | ||
| 68fc3c7 | A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0962a77 | Life is an incurable disease. | Abraham Cowley | ||
| 9a1ece5 | Say, is not absence death to those who love? | Absence | ||
| 755dbce | He'd better stay the hell away from you or I will whip out the lawnmower on his ass," she declared. "That move's not for ass use," I joked" | Tammara Webber | ||
| 85cb093 | Soon nostalgia will be another name for Europe. | Europe | ||
| 5a50c23 | Beauty, thou wild fantastic apeWho dost in every country change thy shape! | Abraham Cowley | ||
| 6ce7c00 | Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre | Abraham Cowley | ||
| e220f33 | Jacqueline, If you want to do, then do. What's stopping you? So I'm kind, huh? Never heard that before. People usually think I'm a pretentious a-hole. I must admit, I tend to encourage that estimation. So please promise to keep your opinion to yourself. Reputations can be ruined so easily, you know. ;) LM PS - Do the worksheet. Before Friday. I'm giving you a very serious look through this screen. DO THE WORKSHEET. If you have problems with.. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 914007f | He looked up and caught me staring, and for the first time that morning, neither of us looked away until Erin said, "J--pay attention! Just try to slap me." I broke the stare and turned to her. She moved around to face me, her back to Lucas, and rolled her eyes. "Does the concept of playing hard-to-get totally escape you?" she whispered. "Let. Him. Chase." "I'm not playing that game any longer." She glanced over her shoulder and back. "Girl.. | Tammara Webber |